Signal device for clock-winding



(No Model.)

0. VOTTI.

SIGNAL DEVIGE FOR GLOOK WINDING.

" No. 289,789. Patented Dec. 4, 1883.

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CARL VOTTI, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

SEGNAL DEVICE FOR CL OGK -WENDING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 289,789, dated December4, 1883.

(No model.)

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be itknown that I, CARL VOTTI, a citizen of the United States, residingat Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia and State ofPennsylvania, have invented new and useful Improvements in Clocks, ofwhich the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in clocks, and has for its objectto provide novel and simple devices for giving warning when the clockshould be rewound. This I aceomplish in the manner and by the meanshereinafter described and claimed, and illustrated in the accompanyingdrawing, in which the figure represents a face view of a time-piece withparts broken away, and showing only so much of the time mechanism as isnecessary to illustrate my invention.

In the drawing, the letter F indicates a studdisk which is fasteneddirectly upon the axis of the motor-wheel G, and its stud h is adaptedto catch into the notches i of the disk K, turn ing the latter thedistance between two consecutive notches for each revolution of the diskF. The notches i in the disk K are, however, not continued completelyabout said disk K, but at one part is a closed space by which the stud his caused to arrest the move ment of the clock. The notches 2' thusdetermine, according to their number, the duration of movement of thetime-piece. To the disk K is fastened a pin, or, which, theoretically,also serves as a stud or catch.

0 is an arm or rod turning on a pivot, 12, and having a secondary arm,S. To the arm 0 is attached a plate or placard, T, upon which may beseen a warning, as, for example, the words wind up.

The operation is as follows: The disk K, for

example, has six notches, i, and a closed space, I

1'. The motor-wheel G, and with it the studdisk F, make about onerevolution in five days, so that the pin m on the disk K would pressupon or lift the secondary arm S upon the expiration of thirty daysafter the clock has been wound up. The arm 0 with its plate T thereby iscaused to describe an arc, and the warning wind up on the plate Tbecomes visible through the sightopening a in the dial. This operationor coming into view of the warning wind up would be completed on thethirty-first day, so that a running space of about four days will stillremain for the clock, during which time any one consulting thetime-piece will be reminded of the necessity for winding up. The plateT, if desired, may be caused to come into view at one side above orbelow the dial, instead of through a sight-opening in the same.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A warning apparatus having a signal, an arm, 0, and wheel or disk K,substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

CARL vomu. [L s] W'itnesses:

H. KENTNER, FREDK. BREITINGER.

